Fix error 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not tuple [duplicate]

Question

I would implement a simple program that tries to guess which word have you chosen among the available ones, based on your hints. This is what I have done so far:

print('you have 2 words you can give hints of, Panda, or bucket ')
term = ('china','chinese','bamboo','bear','panda','black','white',
        'black and white','cute','adorable','big','ying and yang')
hint1 =input('Give me a hint   ')
if term in hint1:
    print('I think it is a panda!')

Right now I am stuck on the panda part and it raises the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Users/edwardandreilucaciu/Documents/guesser.py", line 4, in <module>
    if term in hint1:
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not tuple

Can someone please help me?

All of these edits have removed important pieces of code each time. As it stands, term is undefined. — Jordan Singer
– Jordan Singer, Commented Mar 29, 2019 at 19:20
@JordanSinger Look at the (former) slider at the bottom of the code block. The definition of term was pushed off the right side. — Prune
– Prune, Commented Mar 29, 2019 at 19:31

Jordan Singer · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-29 19:07:13Z

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You just needed to flip the order of your variables in your if statement:

print('you have 2 words you can give hints of, Panda, or bucket ')
term = ('china','chinese','bamboo','bear','panda','black','white',
        'black and white','cute','adorable','big','ying and yang')

hint1 =input('Give me a hint ')
if hint1 in term:
    print('I think it is a panda!')

answered Mar 29, 2019 at 19:07

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